Even the main made up our minds enemy of Festschriften may perhaps baulk at refusing one to Walter Burkert, for there are few students whose paintings has been extra universally widespread and applauded. at the get together of his sixty fifth birthday in 1996 a bunch of former scholars (Graf, Riedweg and Szlezák) and fellow students of Greek faith accumulated on the Römerstiftung René Clavel in Augst close to Basel to rejoice his fulfillment with a symposium.